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Unless we agree to suffer we cannot be free from suffering.

D.T. Suzuki

I raise my hand; I take a book from the other side of this desk; I hear the boys playing ball outside my window; I see the clouds blown away beyond the neighboring woods:-in all these I am practicing Zen, I am living Zen. No worldly discussion is necessary, or any explanation.
D.T. SUZUKI

Book Boys Hands
I am an artist at living – my work of art is my life.
D.T. SUZUKI

Inspirational Life Motivational
The waters are in motion, but the moon retains its serenity.
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Heart Inspiring Moving
Absolute faith is placed in a man’s own inner being. For whatever authority there is in Zen, all comes from within.
D.T. SUZUKI

Absolute Faith Inner
A simple fishing boat in the midst of the rippling waters is enough to awaken in the mind of the beholder a sense of vastness of the sea and at the same time of peace and contentment – the Zen sense oof the alone.
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Fishing Sea Simple
Eternity is the Absolute present.
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Inspirational Life Time
Zen is the spirit of a man. Zen believes in his inner purity and goodness. Whatever is superadded or violently torn away, injures the wholesomeness of the spirit. Zen, therefore, is emphatically against all religious conventionalism.
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Believe Men Religious
Zen has no business with ideas.
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Business Ideas People
To point at the moon a finger is needed, but woe to those who take the finger for the moon.
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Moon Thinking Woe
To Zen, time and eternity are one.
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Eternity One Time
Unless we agree to suffer we cannot be free from suffering.
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Agree Suffering Unless
We have two eyes to see two sides of things, but there must be a third eye which will see everything at the same time and yet not see anything. That is to understand Zen.
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Eye Thirds Two Sides
We teach ourselves; Zen merely points the way.
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Merely Points Teach Way
That’s why I love philosophy: no one wins.
D.T. SUZUKI

Love Philosophy Winning
Prophecy is rash, but it may be that the publication of D.T. Suzuki’s first Essays in Zen Buddhism in 1927 will seem to future generations as great an intellectual event as William of Moerbeke’s Latin translations of Aristotle in the thirteenth century or Marsiglio Ficino’s of Plato in the fifteenth.
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Buddhism Country Latin People Plato
Unless it grows out of yourself no knowledge is really yours, it is only borrowed plumage.
D.T. SUZUKI

Borrowed Grows Plumage

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